The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c10.30

c10.30

The numismatic evidence, however, suggests that the coins of Kācha are later than the Standard and Archer types of Samudragupta. The remarkably original and striking motif on the coins of Kācha was not possible at the death of Chandragupta I. We should therefore place Kācha later than Samudragupta, the motifs of whose Tiger-slayer and Aśvamedha type obviously served as the prototype for the reverse of the coins of Kācha. But did a ruler named Kācha intervene between Samudragupta and Chandragupta II ?